I got something from the homebrew browser utilities section the other day that does just that..its called something like signCheck, the IOS sanity checker.

Finds out what IOS' you've got and makes a handy little excel file for you to list them in on your SD card(so you can open it on your PC and see..assuming you've got something on your PC that will open an excel type file.)

I loaded a backup copy on DVD+R and the pre-game screen shows up on the disc channel fine.

I have 4.1U and did this for the cIOS:

QUOTE8) Install cIOS36 rev10 to IOS249 using Network install mode

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and thanks Dcoop that looks quite helpful to remember all the crap I've done haha

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Which tiger woods is it?
Are you using a backup or original disc? Since you mentioned you see it on the disc channel,and a backed up disc its not clear what you are using I have never seen a backup showup on the disc channel.
After my initial install tiger woods2010 worked just fine for me and this was before i updated to the latest IOS/cIOS thats out now. At what speed did you write your backup at. 1x 2x 4x? I wrote mine at 2x with imgburn.

no, not removed... I think it's automatic. Must be because it loads ghostbusters for me. Much easier from USB but from backup it at least skips the 002 error. I just have to eject the disk just before the wrist strap screen shows up, or else it will freeze. If I get the timing right, ejecting and putting the disc back in allows it to load from disc.